2020 in Review
Google’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Yet Still Extremely Profitable 2020
Alphabet ran a gantlet of regulatory threats as the pandemic diminished, and then boosted,profits
Adrianne Jeffries
Investigative Reporter
Adrianne Jeffries works with the data journalism team to discover and tell stories about inequality, examine the power platforms exert, and explore the consequences of automating decisions.
Before joining The Markup, she worked as a reporter for The Verge, as managing editor at Motherboard, and as an editor and reporter at The Outline. She started writing about tech a decade ago as a reporter for what was then called ReadWriteWeb, and has also freelanced for The New York Times, Businessweek, and Zero Point Zero Production.
Adrianne can be reached on Signal at (614) 347-9853.
Google the Giant
As Antitrust Pressure Mounts, Google to Pull Back Benefit to News Sites That Adopted Its Preferred MobileTechnology
Will the AMP format die as a result?
Election 2020
What Will the Internet Look Like on Nov. 3?
The end of the election is likely to inspire a tsunami of misinformation and anger online. Here's what the major platforms say they're doing about it
Google the Giant
How to Stop Google Self-Preferencing? Europe May Not Be the Model
A congressional subcommittee last week recommended new nondiscrimination rules for big tech firms, but experts say the trick is enforcement
Ask The Markup
Is Your Favorite Podcast Tracking You?
Podcast listening is hard to track, but that doesn’t mean advertisers aren’t trying
Ask The Markup
What Are Ghost Kitchens?
You think you just ordered pizza from a mom and pop, but it might be from Chuck E. Cheese
Ask The MarkupElection 2020
Why Do Voting Machines Break on Election Day?
Power outages, paper jams, and ancient technology are more likely culprits than hackers
Google the Giant
To Head Off Regulators, Google Makes Certain Words Taboo
The Markup obtained internal documents that coach new employees to avoid creating “very real legal risks” in using words like “market” and “networkeffects”
Show Your WorkGoogle the Giant
How We Analyzed Google’s Search Results
Novel categorizations and “staining” techniques uncovered how much space on the search results page Google dedicates to itself
Google the Giant
Google’s Top Search Result? Surprise! It’s Google
The search engine dedicated almost half of the first page of results in our test to its own products, which dominated the coveted top of the page
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